CategoryWines
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Portraits of Tenuta Carretta, Giovanni Minetti
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After interviewing Ivana Brignolo Miroglio representing the property, our column dedicated to portraits continues with Giovanni Minetti, CEO of Tenuta Carretta. Giovanni Minetti can truly boast a past life in the sector, with important institutional positions. Until the choice, in 2014, to become part of the Tenuta Carretta family, of which he is CEO. Giovanni, yours is a very long career...
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Portraits of Tenuta Carretta, Ivana Brignolo Miroglio
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Born in Asti and adopted by Alba, Ivana Brignolo Miroglio is a multifaceted woman. She was a teacher of physical education and councilor for culture of the municipality of Alba. Today she is a vigneron at the head of the Terre Miroglio group (of which Tenuta Carretta is part) together with her husband Edoardo and children Marta and Franco, entrepreneurs in the textile sector. She also became a...
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Tenuta Carretta awaits you at the new edition of Vinitaly
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After two years of hiatus due to Coronavirus, we are really pleased to be able to announce that Tenuta Carretta is back in attendance at Vinitaly. From 10 to 13 April we are ready to welcome you to our usual location Hall 10 (Piedmont), stand R4. The 54th edition of Vinitaly promises to return to the numbers and prestige of 2019. More than 4 thousand exhibitors have already joined, from...
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555 years of Tenuta Carretta
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5, 5 and 5. 2022 marks the 555th anniversary of the foundation of Tenuta Carretta, from that 1467 in which, for the first time, the "cassina Careta" appeared in an official document, located right on the land where today the modern winery stands. It was that sharecropping concession contract, drawn up on November 28, 1467 by notary Giorgio di Monteacuto (the current village of Monteu...
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Tenuta Carretta at Wine Paris & Vinexpo Paris
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Wine Paris & Vinexpo Paris is confirmed. After a two-year stop, the most important French wine fair of the beginning of the year is back. Tenuta Carretta will be present inside the stands of the Piedmont Land of Wine Consortium. The news is official, "Wine Paris & Vinexpo Paris" will open its doors at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, from 14 to 16 February 2022. The organizers have...
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Tenuta Carretta wishes you happy holidays!
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Tenuta Carretta wishes you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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Guinea fowl and Barolo Cannubi Riserva: a royal pairing
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Such a “regal” fowl calls for a “kingly” pair. For Christmas, Tenuta Carretta recommends a «royal» pairing. Guinea fowl stuffed with chestnuts and served with pomegranate sauce: a dish that celebrates excellent seasonal ingredients and an amazing treat for guests. This is the perfect Christmas dish: its full and enveloping flavor is the ideal match to a glass of Cannubi Barolo Docg...
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Ratings 2021, Tenuta Carretta’s most awarded wines
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With pleasure (and with a fair bit of pride) we share the best scores obtained by international critics during the past year. After the difficult months of the lockdown, we can say with certainty that Tenuta Carretta's wines are in excellent shape. Among the most important results, we cannot fail to mention the presence of Cayega Roero Arneis in the Washington Post, chosen as one of the most...
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Garassino: a (commendable) 30 for Barbaresco!
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With the 2017 vintage, this wine by Tenuta Carretta reaches its 30th harvest: identity and diversity of the «monopole» Menzione Geografica The town of Treiso, one of the four where Barbaresco DOCG wine comes from, is located a few kilometers from Alba. From the first hilly ridge delimited by the road that leads to the town comes a truly exceptional wine, a rare product of the complex...
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Time, steel and wood: the essential elements of our cellar
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The raw material of a cellar is wine, but what fuels it is time. Time facilitates transformation. It welcomes the “infant” wine and helps it grow; it stabilizes the wine and leads it to maturity through a series of physico-chemical modifications which reveal its full potential when conducted properly. If time “educates” wine, the barrels are its “cradle”. After the...
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